Description

Students will enjoy this Common Core aligned project designed to teach students problem-solving from the ancient world. Students will be solving engineering feats like calculating perimeter and area, converting measurement, finding relationships and connections between rational numbers, calculating interest, determining profit and more. Students will explain their process and end result.

NextLesson TERMS OF USE
This Terms of Use Agreement (the “Agreement”), effective as of April 9, 2013 states the terms and conditions that govern the contractual agreement between NextLesson, Inc. (the “Company”) and you (the “User”) who agrees to be bound by this Agreement in regard to the User’s access to www.nextlesson.org (the “Site”), which is owned and operated by the Company.
THE Nextlesson SERVICE. Through the Site, the Company offers a project management platform which enables Users to plan, track, and achieve progress toward individual or group goals in a visual, collaborative, and effortless way (the “Service”). By logging onto the Site and/or using the Service, the User agrees to these Terms of Use and associated Privacy Policy located elsewhere on the Site.
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PRIVACY. The Software collects and uses the following information (some or all of which may be obtained from Edmodo): [List information collected]. Publisher’s use and sharing of information of its users, including personally identifiable information, is governed by the terms of its privacy policy, located at [insert link to privacy policy of Publisher]. Edmodo’s use and sharing of information of its users, including personally identifiable information, is governed by Edmodo’s Privacy Policy, located at http://www.edmodo.com/corporate/privacy-policy. Your acceptance of this Agreement constitutes (a) your consent to the foregoing, (b) your acceptance and agreement to be bound by the privacy policies of Publisher and Edmodo, and (c) your representation that you have obtained appropriate consents to the foregoing disclosures from parents of any child to which the foregoing information relates (for example, you are solely responsible for complying with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), which requires parental consent for online collection of personal information from children under 13; you will obtain advance written consent (“Consent”) from all parents whose children will be accessing the Software, and you must keep signed Consents on file and provide them to Publisher or Edmodo upon request). For more information regarding the terms and conditions of the use of any of Edmodo’s services, please see Edmodo’s Terms of Service, located at http://www.edmodo.com/corporate/terms-of-service.